不以詞害誌 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 不以词害志 bùyǐcíhàizhì ㄅㄨˋ ㄧˇ ㄘˊ ㄏㄞˋ ㄓˋ don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom) don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say Character by character 不(bù)no 以(yǐ)use 詞(cí)statement 害(hài)do harm to 誌(zhì)sign Other words read bùyǐcíhàizhì In the same tone 不以辭害志 Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0